The Bishop of Norwich, as Abbot of St. Benets, is still Lord of the Manor.
The church was established by Herbert de Losinga Bishop of Norwich in 1095 as a Benedictine Priory.
After the War he returned to Cambridge, graduated, and taught at St. Lawrence College and Felsted, then was head master of Reed's School and Stowe before becoming lay chaplain to the Bishop of Norwich.
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On June 5, 1975, Reilly was named the third Bishop of Norwich, Connecticut, by Pope Paul VI.
From 1317 till 1324 de Cliff continued to be one of the clerks under whose seal, during the absences of the Lords Chancellors Sandale, Hotham, Bishop of Ely, Salmon, Bishop of Norwich, and Baldock, the great seal was constantly secured.
The earthworks and ruins at North Elmham stewarded by English Heritage are thought to be the remains of Bishop Herbert de Losinga's late eleventh-century episcopal church and the late fourteenth century double-moated castle built on this by Henry le Despenser, Bishop of Norwich.
He contended that he had received visions from the founding Bishop of Norwich, Herbert de Losinga, who had died in 1119.
He had previously been licensed to the perpetual curacy of St. Michael at Thorn, Norwich, and in 1860 he was presented by John Thomas Pelham, bishop of Norwich, to the rectory of Heigham.
Blake was saved at the eleventh hour by a plea for his life from James Goldwell, Bishop of Norwich, but the other two were put to death as ordered.
James Goldwell, (d. 1499), a medieval Dean of Salisbury and Bishop of Norwich
It was no later than 1119 that the church was consecrated and dedicated to St Leonard by Herbert de Losinga 1st Bishop of Norwich (he died in 1119) and that Sandridge became a parish.
There was another delay at the time of the Peasants' Revolt in 1381, following the Battle of North Walsham, when a large group of rebellious local peasants was confronted and defeated by the heavily armed forces led by the warlike bishop of Norwich, Henry le Despenser.